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Cracked.com’s Guide to Fonts
The following is The Cracked Guide to Fonts. Yes, that Cracked — the magazine we read as kids that was the Gobots to MAD’s Transformers. I’ve recently started following their site, and absolutely love its completely whacked cracked sense of humour.
It’s nice to see someone from the graphic design industry poking a bit of fun, as it’s well needed — as lets face it, there’s no shortage of designers who take themselves far far too seriously. From the…
Dao By (new) Design — our shiny new look
I’m way (way) behind on announcing the new look and identity of Dao By Design, but cobblers’ kids and their shoes, eh?
So, welcome to the new look of Dao By Design. Slicker, more organized (or will be when we get everything in its place), more useful and generally just much much better.
Previously the site utilized Joomla for the main CMS and WordPress for the blog. With the CMS-focused improvements that WordPress development has brought over the last two…
WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” Released
And doesn’t it look fantastic.
WordPress 3.0 has some features that have been in high demand for some time, and that theme developers have had to muddle their way around when using WordPress as a project’s CMS. Namely:
- Custom backgrounds & headers (no more custom fields and php wizardry needed)
- Shortlinks (our tweets thank you)
- Menus (I can’t tell you how exited I am to retire the rather massive PHP function I use to do this now)
- Custom Post
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SEOSimple Joomla 1.5 Plugin v1.4
I need first apologize for the length of time between updates. I have no excuse other than an insane work schedule. I, initially at least, was also trying to hold off releasing a new version until I had some significant bugs to fix or features to add. Perhaps it’s a testament to the simpleness of the plugin, but bugs are few and far between.
That said, an encoding bug has been the bane of the plugin’s existence and desperately needed…
Awesome: SEO Rapper – Design Coding
A friend of mine just forwarded me this video by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper), and I enjoyed it so much that just had to break my DBD blogging silence to share it here.
The song lays out, with some slick verse, the importance of Web standards and proper design — both for how it relates to the look of the site, and the way the site gets indexed by search engines. Check it out and…
